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	Red Cross Red Crescent - News on Kazakhstan
		Semipalatinsk is an area that has long been contaminated with radioactive fallout from nuclear testing from 1949 to 1989.
		The population in the surrounding towns and villages continue to suffer from this silent menace and the grinding poverty in the region.
		Elena Matitsina is the project co-ordinator for the Safe Motherhood Centre established by the Kazakh Red Crescent Red Cross on the premises of a maternity hospital in Semipalatinsk City to serve both the urban poor and women from surrounding rural areas.
	www.ifrc.org /docs/news/01/081501 (952 words)

	SEMIPALATINSK - LoveToKnow Article on SEMIPALATINSK (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11)
		The Kurchum, the Narym and the Bukhtarma are the chief righthand tributaries of the Irtysh, while the Char-urban, Chagan and many smaller streams join it from the left; none are navigable; neither are the Kokpekty and Bugaz, which enter Lake Zaisan on the west.
		The Russians are chiefly agriculturists, and have wealthy settlements on the right bank of the Irtysh, as well asa few patches in the south, at the foot of the mountains.
		SEMIPALATINSK, a town of Asiatic Russia, capital of the province of the same name, on the right bank of the Irtysh, and on the highway from Dzungaria to Omsk, 683 m.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /S/SE/SEMIPALATINSK.htm (796 words)

	Semipalatinsk Test Site - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Once atmospheric tests were banned, testing was tranferred to underground locations at Chagan, Murzhik (in the west), and at the Degelen Mountain complex in the south, which is riddled with boreholes and drifts for both subcritical and supercritical tests.
		After the closure of the Semipalatinsk labor camp, construction duties were performed by the 217th separate engineering and mining battalion (who later build the Baikonur Cosmodrome).
		The Semipalatinsk complex was of acute interest to foreign governments during its operation, particularly during the phase when explosions were carried out above ground at the experimental field.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Semipalatinsk_Test_Site (626 words)

	Living at Ground Zero
		SEMIPALATINSK, Kazakstan - NADEZHDA LISOVETS was milking one of her cows when the earth trembled so violently that the frightened animals tried to run away.
		He was forbidden to visit Semipalatinsk for the next 30 years and had to sign a waiver not to publish his research.
		The legacy of the tests is clear at the Semipalatinsk cancer hospital, where Lisovets came for her breast cancer operation.
	www.peace.ca /nucleararticle.htm (2308 words)

	Semipalatinsk Test Site -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11)
		The scientific buildings for the test site were located around 150 km west of the town of (Click link for more info and facts about Semipalatinsk) Semipalatinsk (later renamed Semey), with most of the nuclear tests taking place at various sites further to the west and south.
		After the closure of the Semipalatinsk labor camp, construction duties were performed by the 217th separate engineering and mining battalion (who later build the (Click link for more info and facts about Baikonur Cosmodrome) Baikonur Cosmodrome).
		The US (An intelligence agency of the United States in the Department of Defense; is responsible for providing intelligence in support of military planning and operations and weappons acquisition) Defense Intelligence Agency is said to have been convinced that the Soviets had constructed an enormous beam weapon station at the STS (which wasn't the case).
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/s/se/semipalatinsk_test_site.htm (617 words)

	Texas Medical Center News
		Semipalatinsk, Kazakhstan, is a place that most people would have trouble locating on a map.
		Semipalatinsk, a city of about 350,000, is located in the northeast corner of Kazakhstan, one of the former republics of the Soviet Union.
		Thyroid enlargement is endemic in the Semipalatinsk area, and until recently the masses have been surgically removed - at great expense and morbidity.
	www.tmc.edu /tmcnews/03_01_98/page_08.html (562 words)

	Kazakhtan New Bulletin, March 11, 2005
		People of the Semipalatinsk region, which was home to the Soviet Union’s largest nuclear test site and remains Kazakhstan’s largest environmental disaster area, will receive sizeable assistance from the Government of Kazakhstan under a special program now under development.
		Similarly, the number of babies with birth defects in Semipalatinsk is 239 per 100,000 live births, compared to 170 per 100,000 in Kazakhstan as a whole.
		Semipalatinsk in August 2004 and said the United States should work with Kazakhstan to fight the legacy of four decades of Soviet nuclear testing at the site.
	www.homestead.com /prosites-kazakhembus/031105.html (1616 words)

	Eureka and Semipalatinsk find their El Dorado at cup carnival - and doesn't the boss love it - smh.com.au
		One of his favourite stallions was Semipalatinsk, and he was spruiking the sire and Queensland breeding to the hilt.
		Semipalatinsk's female offspring recorded a hat-trick of winners in Private Steer, winner of the group 1 feature, Another Warrior (by the ill-fated Brave Warrior) in the listed Eagle Farm Stakes and Picablu (by Piccolo) in the last race.
		Brisbane Cup day was another group 1 success for Semipalatinsk mares when two-year-old Picaday, which McAlpine urged trainer Bruce McLachlan to purchase as a yearling at the Magic Millions (for $37,000), won the T.J. Smith.
	www.smh.com.au /articles/2003/06/12/1055220710393.html (1016 words)

	Global Radiation Exposures
		At the Semipalatinsk Test Site, a total of 456 nuclear tests, including 111 atmospheric tests, were conducted for a period of 40 years from 1949.
		Radiation exposure in Semipalatinsk is mainly due to atmospheric tests-from radioactive clouds containing lethal fallout that resulted from nuclear explosions.
		Although the entire residents of some villages were evacuated, evacuation in Semipalatinsk was not as large-scale as that in Chernobyl.
	www.hiroshima-cdas.or.jp /HICARE/en/10/hi04.html (552 words)

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		Nineteenth-century Semipalatinsk, a Russian imperial trading post for fur trappers in the bleak steppes south of Siberia, was already a desolate place when Dostoevsky, in exile, wrote The House of the Dead there, crammed with wife and screaming baby in a two-room house whose floorboards still creak.
		If Semipalatinsk were as close to Western Europe as, say, Chernobyl, it would be recognised in horror as the cruellest proving ground of the Cold War.
		At the Semipalatinsk Polygon two years later, 272 soldiers were parachuted in immediately after a nuclear test with orders "to hold the ground pending reinforcements".
	www.kazakhembus.com /Nuc_gp.html (2767 words)

	The Monster of Semipalatinsk
		The two months we spent in an expedition to the Semipalatinsk nuclear testing range was one long nightmare.
		We have taken the first steps, and we welcome the chance to cooperate with all who are not indifferent to human misfortune.
		A founder of the NGO Ecocenter in Karaganda, Kazakstan, Kaisha Atakhanova is a herpetologist who received a MacArthur Foundation grant to conduct a scientific study of the Semipalatinsk region in the summer of 1994.
	www.isar.org /pubs/ST/Semipalatinsk.html (1195 words)

	A nuclear family vacation in Russia. - By Nathan Hodge and Sharon Weinberger - Slate Magazine
		Semipalatinsk is the old Russian name for a city czarist officers once called the "devil's sandbox." The Kazakhs now call it Semey, which Aidar helpfully translated as "soul place."
		After arriving at Semipalatinsk State Medical Academy, we were ushered past a reliquary of Lenin statues and into a small two-story building.
		While you stay in Semipalatinsk, the city with blended old and new, with ancient history, the city bathed in green, you will spend an unforgettable time and I am sure that you will try to make your own contribution to the economic development of the land which suffered from nuclear testing.
	www.slate.com /id/2144264/entry/2144275 (1393 words)

	IRIN Asia \| Asia \| Kazakhstan \| KAZAKHSTAN: Meningitis outbreak registered in Almaty and Semipalatinsk \| Children ...
		"There is a meningitis outbreak in Almaty and Semipalatinsk cities going on now and some 85 percent of the patients are children," Ayzad Moldogasimova, head of the epidemiological control department, told IRIN from the Kazakh capital, Astana, on Wednesday.
		In the northeastern Kazakh city of Semipalatinsk, 88 meningitis cases have been reported since July 2004, of which 86 cases were viral and two were bacterial forms, with no casualties.
		According to the US-based Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), meningitis is an infection of the fluid of a person's spinal cord and the fluid that surrounds the brain.
	www.irinnews.org /report.asp?ReportID=42864&SelectRegion=Central_Asia&SelectCountry=KAZAKHSTAN (704 words)

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		After prison camp, Dostoevsky wrote from Semipalatinsk: "It seems to me that happiness is in a radiant view of life and in an unblemished heart, not in external things".
		In terms of Dostoevsky's biography, Semipalatinsk was a city of changes, here he awaited his amnesty and believed that he would soon return to European Russia Small sketches of the Siberian city can be found in his texts.
		There were one-story, squat log cabins and endless fences, not a single lantern or watchman on the street, not one living soul, and if it were not for the despairing barking of dogs, the city would have seemed dead.
	www.md.spb.ru /index.cgi?pg=dostoevsky&lg=eng (6900 words)

	MOFA: The Tokyo International Conference on Semipalatinsk
		In recognition of the grave legacy and consequences of 40 years of nuclear testing upon the people, environment, and economy of the Semipalatinsk region of Kazakhstan, an International Conference was organised in Tokyo on 6 and 7 September, 1999.
		UN member states stressed the need for greater international attention, cooperation and coordination in responding to the circumstances of the Semipalatinsk Polygon; urged the international community to share its knowledge and experience of these problems; and sought the mobilisation of support for those affected by, and cumulatively exposed to, decades of radiation.
		The Tokyo International Conference on Semipalatinsk concluded successfully by responding to the priority needs of the affected population, and to the spirit and the practical intent of the UN General Assembly Resolutions.
	www.mofa.go.jp /region/europe/kazakhstan/semipala/summary9909.html (1297 words)

	IRIN Asia \| Asia \| Kazakhstan \| KAZAKHSTAN: Disturbing health statistics from nuclear Semipalatinsk \| Health & ...
		Along with anaemia and infection there were different pathologies during the pregnancies, and some 45 percent of pregnant women treated at the perinatal centre in Semipalatinsk had been diagnosed as having hestosis, a type of obstetrical complication, Galimulina noted.
		Galimulina said that there was no laboratory in the town [of Semipalatinsk] calpable of detecting those infections and enabling them to treat the infections effectively.
		Galimulina also said that the problems of iron-deficiency anaemia and lack of iodine could be tackled by the fortification of food, while the number of iodine deficiency- related diseases was growing.
	www.irinnews.org /report.asp?ReportID=36253&SelectRegion=Central_Asia&SelectCountry=KAZAKHSTAN (971 words)

	Eurasia Gold inc: Home
		Mizek Mine is located in the Abralinsky and Chubatausky Regions of East-Kazakhstan Oblast (Province), Republic of Kazakhstan approximately 330 kilometres southwest of Semipalatinsk and approximately 600 kilometres southeast of Astana, the capital city of Kazakhstan.
		The Central Mukur Mine is located in the north-eastern area of the Republic of Kazakhstan in the East Kazakhstan Oblast (Province) approximately 30 kilometres southwest of the city of Semipalatinsk.
		The project area is situated in the vicinity of the town of Semipalatinsk, which is located approximately 900 kilometres north-northeast of the town of Almaty.
	eurasiagold.com /index.html (430 words)

	BBC News \| MEDIA REPORTS \| Kazakhstan highlights nuclear test aftermath
		Kazakhstan has marked the 10th anniversary of the closure of the Soviet nuclear test site at Semipalatinsk with a drive to remind the world of its lasting impact on the environment and the health of local people.
		Semipalatinsk, in the northeast of the Central Asian state, was the scene of more than 500 nuclear explosions between 1949 and 1989.
		In Semipalatinsk itself, Wednesday's anniversary was marked by the unveiling of a memorial to all those - estimated by the UN at about 100,000 over three generations - who have suffered as a result of radiation from the tests.
	news.bbc.co.uk /hi/english/world/monitoring/media_reports/newsid_1516000/1516889.stm (729 words)

	Semipalatinsk Revisited: Old Nuclear Test Site Set New Course
		A statue of Igor Kurchatov, the "father of the Soviet atomic bomb project", stands in front of the former Headquarters of the Semipalatinsk nuclear test site, in what was then known as the village of Kurchatov in the Kazakhstan Republic.
		This testing ground was the Semipalatinsk test site, a 19,000 square-kilometre zone in the northeast of the country, 800 km north of the capital Almaty.
		Today, the scientific and technical facilities at Semipalatinsk are being converted to peaceful uses under the jurisdiction of the National Nuclear Centre of the Republic of Kazakhstan, work which the IAEA is assisting.
	www.iaea.org /NewsCenter/News/2006/semipalatinsk.html (516 words)

	Agenda Item 81: "Effect of Atomic Radiation"
		The history of the Semipalatinsk nuclear testing ground, where these tests were carried out, began on 29 August 1949, when the Soviet Union conducted the first explosion of a plutonium bomb.
		On 16 December 1997, the General Assembly adopted resolution 52/169 M "International cooperation and coordination for the human and ecological rehabilitation and economic development of the Semipalatinsk region of Kazakhstan", which recognized the seriousness of the situation in the Semipalatinsk region.
		The adoption by the General Assembly of that resolution, which was sponsored by 47 Member States, testifies to the firm support expressed by the international community for Kazakhstan in overcoming the consequences of the nuclear tests that were left to it as a heritage of the past.
	www.un.int /kazakhstan/sa_10198.htm (1129 words)

	Kazakh Adoptive Families: Semey/Semipalatinsk
		It was founded as a Russian fort in 1718, 11 miles (18 km) downstream from the present site, near the ruins of a Buddhist monastery consisting of seven buildings, from which it got the name Semipalatinsk, meaning "seven-halled." It was moved to its present site in 1778 to escape regular flooding in the spring.
		Semipalatinsk lay at the junction of caravan trails from Mongolia to Russia and from Siberia to Central Asia, and before the 1917 Revolution more than 11,000 camels passed through annually.
		The writer Fyodor Dostoyevsky spent the years 1854-59 in Semipalatinsk in exile as a soldier in a line battalion.
	kazakhadoptivefamilies.com /cities/semey.html (1228 words)

	Government Semipalatinsk State Medical University : gssmu.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11)
		Semipalatinsk is the most eminent city of Kazakhstan and Govt.
		Semipalatinsk State Medical University is situated at Abai Street - the heart of Semipalatinsk.
		It was founded as Semipalatinsk State Medical university on 2nd Sept, 1952.
	www.gssmu.com (165 words)

	The Death-Beam Gap - Keegan's Follies in Perspective - John Pike - October 1992
		Suggestions that the rocket test stands at Semipalatinsk had been improperly interpreted as directed energy weapons facilities were first raised in early 1992.
		The facility at Semipalatinsk was identified by the Air Force as PNUT - Possible Nuclear Underground Test, and by the Central Intelligence Agency as URDF-3 - Unidentified Research and Development Facility Three.
		The primary source of confusion over the Semipalatinsk facility was the predilection for worst-case assessments by some elements of the American intelligence community.
	www.fas.org /spp/eprint/keegan.htm (1899 words)

	The Barefoot College, 2000 Nuclear-Free Future Award recipients
		In 1989, when Soviet authorities threatened to quell public demonstrations against a new round of nuclear warhead testing at Semipalatinsk, it was Kuidin’s photos that made plain the tragic plight of his people to the rest of the world.
		While documenting the Soviet government’s murder of its own people, Kuidin, co-founder of the anti-nuke movement, "Nevada-Semipalatinsk," and after 1990 a member of the Atomic Photographers Guild, paid no attention to the radioactive dosages he was receiving, nor gave a second thought to his own personal political peril.
		In November of 1998, representatives at the 53rd United Nations General Assembly voted to lend aid to the Semipalatinsk victims -- a decision that, according to the foreign minister of Kazakhstan, was considerably spurred by Kuidin’s photos.
	www.nuclear-free.com /english/kuidin.htm (640 words)

	Semipalatinsk travel guide
		Semipalatinsk also known as Semey is the location of a former Soviet Nuclear Testing Area.
		The Semipalatinsk Test Site was founded in 1948 with the first nuclear explosion tested in 1949 and the last in 1989.
		Along with the problem of economic development, Kazakhstan must cope with some of the some of the worst prevailing conditions of environmental pollution in the world, existing pollution inherited from the Soviet era.
	www.world66.com /asia/centralasia/kazakhstan/semipalatinsk (233 words)

	Division of Cancer Epidemiology And Genetics (DCEG): Branches: Radiation Epidemiology Branch: Radiation Epidemiology ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11)
		Gordeev, K.I. Radiation Exposure to the Population of the Semipalatinsk Region From Semipalatinsk Weapons Tests Part I. Experimental and theoretical investigation of the processes of radioactive contamination of grass resulting from local fallout from nuclear explosions and justification of the concept of "biologically active fraction" of fallout.
		Functional dependencies, calculation models, and experimental parameters used to estimate external and internal doses to the population living on the traces of local fallout from nuclear explosions.
		Assessment of the realistic doses to whole-body from external gamma irradiation and doses to thyroid from internal irradiation for the populations living in the number of settlements of Kazakhstan as a result of radiation exposure from nuclear explosions conducted at the Semipalatinsk Polygon.
	dceg.cancer.gov /radia-researchKazakhstan.html (627 words)

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